Recently slashdot ran a story http://slashdot.org/story/09/06/29/1816226/Does-the-Hacker-Ethic-Harm- that concluded with the following statement and question: "'American software development managers often complain that Indian programmers are too literal-minded, but perhaps Americans have swung the pendulum too far in the other direction. In...
After much controversy and some late additions to the selection list, our audience has chosen The Matrix and Blade Runner as their favorite Sci-Fi movies.
SourceForge's FOSS project of the month of June was Silex. From the SourceForge writeup: "Silex is an open source RIA that enables you to build Flash websites for Flash Player 7, 8, 9, and 10. Silex is a new kind...
Well, we are nearing the midway point of the year, so we thought it would be fun to have a non tech poll, that is simply for fun. Let me start by saying that I am not a big fan...
This poll was one that brought many votes and most of you don't feel that HTML 5 will be making any major impact any time soon. Over 40% of you voted for "I don't think so: HTML 5 doesn't touch...
HTML 5 has been the topic of buzz lately in the Internet/RIA world. With new features like Canvas, offline local storage, etc. many have been suggesting (including a recent article from infoworld) that HTML 5 could steal market share from...
Last week Palm released the Pre, which uses Palm's new webOS platform (based on HTML, CSS & JavaScript). Since webOS is using very familiar languages to many developers, we assume that there would be a high interest in developing for...
I fully admit that this was a poll that was really kind of unfair as many of us (including myself) have not really seen much of Google Wave yet outside of a video from I/O. With that being the case,...
This is an excerpt from Designing Social Interfaces. From the creators of Yahoo!'s Design Pattern Library, Designing Social Interfaces provides you with more than 100 patterns, principles, and best practices, along with salient advice for many of the common... Continue Reading
If you have had an opportunity to look at the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service (AFCS) you could see that there is a huge opportunity to do interesting multi-user applications without needing to write all of the server side code. However... Continue Reading
Overview Purpose of this article The goal of this article is to help you gain a better understanding of the Decorator design pattern. The Decorator pattern is used to attach additional responsibilities to an object at run time dynamically. Decorators... Continue Reading
The proliferation of cellular phones has revolutionized the way we communicate with one another and is the foundation for a more mobile lifestyle. Adobe, a long time player in rich internet applications, wanted to, once again, be an active participant.... Continue Reading
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